Can a guide be launched automatically from an email campaign or a knowledge-base article?

Yes, regardless of the use case, you can always create a link that, when opened, automatically launches a guide.

Common use cases

An e-mail campaign to your customers announcing a new feature. If clicked, you want the reader to be engaged with a Guided Learning tour of the new feature.
Linking a knowledge-base article to the relevant guide. If the article is providing an overview of a certain procedure, the user can jump directly into doing that procedure with the guide activated.
Integrating Guided Learning guides with your LMS

Prerequisites

Guided Learning must be embedded in your application
Sufficient knowledge of HTML or at least of creating an HTML link.
Sufficient permissions to add the HTML link to the email campaign, knowledge-base, or LMS

Creating a Permalink

A permalink is composed of 2 parts:

The link to the desired destination page. For example, if you application is hosted on http://myapp.com, the link to the user profile page could be http://myapp.com/profile.
A parameter that signals Guided Learning to launch the guide. This is why we need Guided Learning to be embedded.
```
stStart=[api name]
```

For example, to launch a Guided Learning guide with the API name abcdefg that gives an overview of the profile page:

IMPORTANT: Permalinks do not work with Oracle Fusion Applications.